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On the recordMay 9, 2018
If there is an oil spill today and millions of birds are killed, would the perpetrator of the oil spill... be responsible for damages as they have in the past?
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Chris Van Hollen
Democratic · Maryland

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Questioning accountability for oil spills and bird deaths.

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